Example sentences of "[pers pn] now [vb past] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had conceived my fictional , pastoral church within which I now spent so much of my time during an imaging session at the Centre , but I had yet to see it in reality . |
| 2 | After that , since she now spent as much time as possible on deck keeping out of the way of her cousins , with whom she felt a constraint , Ruth saw the woman for several days in a row . |
| 3 | Our home had been turned upside down , our little boy , who we now loved so much , was diagnosed as retarded and Andreas was told he would be jailed for up to seven years in Cyprus . |
| 4 | But they now had only half their souls left in their bodies , and spoke in trembling tones . |
| 5 | He had become the representative of a tradition which , without his presence , might finally disappear , and the fact that he now had very little left to say only heightened the almost ritualistic sense of occasion which that presence provided . |
| 6 | Having returned to London , the Goldsmiths considered the subject and it is remarkable that , after so many years in which scarcely a mention is made of Stockport in the Minute Books , it now occupied so much of their attention for five years . |